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AWS – AWS Cost Management introduces visual Savings Plans recommendations
Starting today, customers can easily understand and validate their Savings Plans recommendations through new visual graphs. The new hourly graphs show On-Demand spend alongside the recommended Savings Plans commitment, providing insight into estimated savings, Savings Plans coverage, and Savings Plans utilization. This helps customers understand how their Savings Plans apply to each hour of spend […]

AWS – Announcing auto-account association for AWS Billing Conductor billing groups
Starting today, customers can choose to automatically associate all newly created accounts (or any accounts invited to their AWS Organization) with an AWS Billing Conductor billing group. By enabling auto-account association, customers can reduce the steps needed to implement a custom chargeback model. For example, organizations can use the feature to automatically associate all newly […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core announces MQTT support for Device Location feature
Today, AWS IoT Core announces the general availability of MQTT support for Device Location. IoT Core Device Location feature allows customers to obtain devices’ location data and build location based applications even when devices don’t have a built in GPS. With IoT Core Device Location feature, customers can use advanced cloud based location solvers, such […]

AWS – Personalize your search results with Amazon Personalize and OpenSearch integration
Amazon Personalize launches a new integration with self-managed OpenSearch that enables customers to personalize search results for each user and assists in predicting their search needs. The Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin within OpenSearch helps customers to leverage the deep learning capabilities offered by Amazon Personalize and add personalization to OpenSearch search results, without any […]

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK provides additional compositing options for live connector and media capture
The Amazon Chime SDK now provides additional options to customize the layout of video sent to streaming services or captured to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers have more flexibility to tailor the composited layout […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive now available in additional AWS Regions
AWS Elemental MediaLive is a broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you create high-quality live video streams for delivery to broadcast televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like connected TVs, tablets, smartphones, and set-top boxes. Read More for the details.

GCP – DevOps Awards winner Vodafone on “unlocking the secrets of DevOps”
In this blog post, we’re highlighting Vodafone for the DevOps achievements that earned them the ‘Unlocking the secrets of DevOps’ award in the2022 DevOps Awards. If you want to learn more about the winners and how they used DORA metrics and practices to grow their businesses, start here. Vodafone — a leading telecommunications company in […]

GCP – Cloud Deploy gets deploy parameters, new console creation flows, and reduced pricing
When it comes to software delivery and deployments, details matter. Earlier this year, we added parallel deployments to Cloud Deploy. Since launching that feature, we’ve received feedback to support differentiated release deployments across individual child targets. To enable this, we are pleased to introduce deploy parameters to Cloud Deploy in Preview, allowing you to configure […]

GCP – Streamlining ML development with Feast
This post is the first in a short series of blog posts about Feast on Google Cloud. In this first blog post, we describe the benefits of using Feast, a popular open source ML feature store, on Google Cloud. In our second blog post, we’ll provide a simple, introductory tutorial for building a product recommendation […]
GCP – Announcing Tecton on Google Cloud: Accelerate the development of ML-powered applications
Data is the lifeblood of any machine learning application. To make more accurate predictions, ML models need access to high-quality data signals, commonly referred to as ML features. These ML features are usually characterized by refined data with high signal value that incorporate all the latest information available to an organization. Tecton on Google Cloud […]